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Re: THEORY: Evolution of infixes/ablaut?

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, March 17, 2000, 22:57
Jens_Daniel Persson wrote:
> In swedish plural of 'man' (=man) is 'män' (the middle letter is supposed to > be an 'a' with dots; perhaps it shows up strange on your computer).
I believe that's a general Germanic phenomenon, occuring in the original proto-Germanic. Altho a number of the words have been regularized, like books (not beech) and cows (not kyne). Afrikaans has, I believe, regularized your example to something like "mans" -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor